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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has launched a state effort to help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild from the deadly hurricane that wreaked havoc across the Caribbean island last week.
Hurricane Maria, the most devastating storm to hit the economically backward region in a century, killed 33 people in Dominica...

Japan is taking a strong control over virtual currency exchanges in the country. The Financial Services Agency or FSA of Japan's move would be applicable to Bitcoin and all other digital currencies. Japan has been a nerve center of bitcoin exchange markets.

A growing number of Black American musicians are joining the kneeling protest in solidarity with NFL players who knelt during national anthem in a show of defiance against social and racial injustice in the country under the Trump administration.
Music legend Stevie Wonder showed his support for under-fire...

US President Donald Trump has issued a new order to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries on the basis of evaluation that they pose threat to America's security.
Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen are the countries the restriction applies to.
The...

The U.S. airstrikes killed 17 Islamic State militants and destroying three vehicles in Libya, the U.S. military said Sunday.
The U.S. Africa Command said, "In coordination with Libya's Government of National Accord and aligned forces, U.S. forces conducted six precision airstrikes in Libya against...

A masked gunman opened fire at a church in the Nashville, Tenn., area Sunday morning, killing one woman and injuring seven other people who were attending services, police said.
Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, is being charged tonight with one count of murder in connection with this morning's mass shooting...

Iran said it tested a new medium-range ballistic missile, the day after unveiling it in defiance of U.S. criticism over its disputed nuclear program.
State television flashed images of the Khoramshahr missile's disengaging warhead, calling it the country's third such missile capable of traveling some...

The ongoing war of words between the United States and North Korea saw several new fiery salvos Saturday, a day on which the US military, in a show of force, flew bombers in international airspace over waters east of North Korea.
U.S. Department of Defense said Saturday in its website that U.S. Air...

Dealing a potentially fatal blow to a last-ditch effort by Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare, Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., on Friday announced his opposition to a healthcare bill drafted by Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Friday the decision to withdraw Obama-era guidance on how to investigate and adjudicate allegations of campus sexual misconduct. The move by DeVos comes as she previously argued the guidelines instituted under former President Barack Obama denied proper due process to those accused.

Reiterating his claim that Russian meddling in last year's election is a hoax, President Donald Trump has argued that the biggest influence on the election came from the media.
Trump seemed to suggest in a post on Twitter on Friday that his victory in the presidential election came despite the media's...

With the Senate set to vote on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare next week, President Donald Trump on Friday warned Republicans of the consequences of voting against the bill.
Trump singled out Senator Rand Paul, R-Ken., who is thus far the lone Senate Republican to publicly oppose the bill...

"Anthropologie is giving away free couches online." that was the most hot message on twitter on Thursday. Due to a probable system glitch, the website showed the price of the Edlyn two-piece chaise section as zero. As per the website anyone can own the Couches by paying just $149 as delivery charge. The actual price tag of the couches was $7,798.

U.S. airlines collected a record $7.1 billion in revenue from fees for checked baggage and for changing or canceling reservations, reflecting a marked increase from 2010, according to a government report. The U.S. Government Accountability Office or GOA said in a report that U.S. airlines' revenue from these two fees increased to $7.1 billion in 2016 from $6.3 billion in 2010, in constant dollars.

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines, rather than humans or other animals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that are associated with human minds, such as learning and problem solving.
Technology has...